Do Males Or Females Have A Stronger Association Between Math And Stress?

Do different do either males or females have a stronger association between math and stress? An experiment looking to see if different genders have a different level of association between math and stress will use an implicit association test. The IAT would have a category for words relating to math, another category for words relating to or associated stress and two other, neutral, categories and their associated words. In this study the independent variable or the variable being manipulated is the gender of the participant. The dependent variable is the association between stress and math, which is measured by the sorting of the words into categories. The research design for this experiment would be a within-subjects design. The design of the experiment would involve the participants sorting the words into different groups more than once. The beginning of the test has the participants just sort between two categories and the have the participants sort the words between two sets of categories. The pairings of the categories should be randomly placed together to control the order effect that can skew the

The experimenter monitoring this research will have to be careful about the behavior he or she exhibits because the participants will notice the experimenter’s demeanor, even if neither the experimenter nor the participants understand the effect the affect of the behavioral tendencies of the experimenter. The experimenter must make sure that he or she is not in a hurry to leave, so the participants are anxious and take the test too quickly without focusing, and they must make sure that they are not too relaxed, so the participants thinks that the research is not important. The experimenter must be observant and calm while monitoring the participants, not looking at his or her watch too often, not fidgeting, and not ignoring the